Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I thank the gentleman from Texas for his kind words as well. Madam Speaker, from the Book of Isaiah, chapter 6, verse 8: Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send? And I said, Here I am. Send me. Nate said, Send me, when his country asked and he was looking for a way to serve. He joined the Marine Corps. Lance Corporal Deyarmin was born on July 30, 1983. He was named after his father, but they started calling him ``Nate.'' They moved to Tallmadge, in our congressional district, when he was 1\1/2\ years old. He lived there his whole life. His family said he was a homeboy from Tallmadge. Nate went to school there and played sports there. He lived there and he made friends there. Nate joined the Marine Corps as his way of serving, but when you read about his life, the interesting thing--and what we are celebrating here--is that he said, Send me, from the very early stages of his life here on Earth. When his great grandfather was 89 years old and bedridden, it was little Nate that jumped into the bed and started playing Legos to engage his great grandfather to make him feel better. They had this little game they would play where his grandfather would move his false teeth in and out of his mouth and little Nate would try and grab the teeth. A few years later, when the great grandfather died, Nate had an opportunity to pick whatever he wanted of his great grandfather's--and he picked the false teeth.…”